Using my photo's without permission...

Flibster

Flibster

Flibster

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Generally I'd be pretty pleased about people wanting to use my photo's and would generally let them use them if they credited me with them.

IF they ask.

However - compare the bottom two images on this ROYAL AIR FORCE web page :mad:

http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/news_0609_06.html

With...

http://www.flibster.com/Images/XH558-Roll-Out-31-08-2006/DSCF1888-smaller.JPG

and

http://www.flibster.com/Images/XH558-Roll-Out-31-08-2006/DSCF1807-smaller.jpg

Look pretty similar?

What do you reckon I should screw them for? ;)

Simon/~Flibster
 
MajorPart said:
Ask them that in return for lack of creditation you demand they take you up in a plane as payment :D

Dunno depends where they nicked them from.. they key in the first image is the mans head.. they could never argue that it was a different photographer t roughly the same time.

To be honest i wouldn't be bothered with the RAF ripping off my images as they have ample RAF photographers to choose from/plus they hire in privately to cover events.. so i'd be chuffed that they used my images.. but i'd ask them to stick my name next to them!
Click to expand...

Well...

With the one with the crew who got it to that state - that photo does not exist in real terms - I had to digitally remove a couple of people's heads from the bottom right corner. ;)

And they are identical apart from the file sizes...

Any idea how much they pay their photographers though? Would be nice to get a sizable donation to the Vulcan. ;)

Simon/~Flibster
 
Things go on...

However - in a positively odd way.

Get passed from RAF to MOD...and then onto Crown Copyright themselves.

VERY helpful chap there. Has looked into it.
It appears that the images came with a press release... Oh....

Phone TVOC this evening. They're going to have a word with the PR people and let me know tomorrow.

This is getting very weird for me. I'm no professional photographer - I'm an IT support geek with a hobby. If they had asked me if they could use them the answer would have been 'Go ahead - just credit them to me'

Simon/~Flibster
 
They have been posted on a couple of forums...

Including this one and TVOC *The Vulcan Operating Company*

It lookis like the PR company decided that they liked them and just saved them...

Nice... A PR company that does that doesn't sound that reliable really.

Simon/~Flibster
 
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